Such a beautiful, if ephemeral, blue. This feels like something fascinating to dig into, but then I like the idea of working with nature. Art that shifts, that whispers rather than shouts. Each step could be fixed by photography—a truly limited edition print.
Your work is so much about nature and the ephemeral, isn’t it? This is almost the opposite of photography in a way - when photographing you are pinning that ephemeral moment. With these paints, you are slowly making something that itself peaks and then fades, is unpinned, non-stable.
Do you remember Christo’s enormous wrapped installations? And photography was the only medium most of us experienced those ephemeral things through. And of course, here I am photographing them and sending potentially infinite copies out onto the internet
Perhaps that is why this appeals. I have for several years been interested in what alternatives exist to a permanent print, to continue experimenting and learning. You’ve nudged me on this thought, so thank you!
I do remember Christo—and Andy Goldsworthy comes to mind too.
I know someone here in NZ who is using seaweed and plants to develop her photographs. No idea how this works! She is on instagram as (at)virginiawoodsjacks
Nature provides all the beauty our hearts can handle, doesn't it? So much to parallel with the human existence, too. 🌸
Yes - the more I learn about plants, the more amazed I am by the connections we have to them
Oh this is so interesting. I will never look at red cabbage as a food stuff. Nature gives us such a myriad of palettes.
Plants contain multitudes! Often the best colour plants are also really good medicines too
Such a beautiful, if ephemeral, blue. This feels like something fascinating to dig into, but then I like the idea of working with nature. Art that shifts, that whispers rather than shouts. Each step could be fixed by photography—a truly limited edition print.
Your work is so much about nature and the ephemeral, isn’t it? This is almost the opposite of photography in a way - when photographing you are pinning that ephemeral moment. With these paints, you are slowly making something that itself peaks and then fades, is unpinned, non-stable.
Do you remember Christo’s enormous wrapped installations? And photography was the only medium most of us experienced those ephemeral things through. And of course, here I am photographing them and sending potentially infinite copies out onto the internet
Perhaps that is why this appeals. I have for several years been interested in what alternatives exist to a permanent print, to continue experimenting and learning. You’ve nudged me on this thought, so thank you!
I do remember Christo—and Andy Goldsworthy comes to mind too.
I know someone here in NZ who is using seaweed and plants to develop her photographs. No idea how this works! She is on instagram as (at)virginiawoodsjacks